A recent Horizon poll had the usual mix of political and business-oriented questions. It is usually fairly easy to get a rough idea who commissioned certain questions in a poll. In this Horizon poll, received on 19 March, it seems fairly obvious that a powerco and peer-to-peer/crowd-equity -under commissioned two sets of questions.

The last set of questions, though, related to the topical issue of mass surveillance and data collection.

Note the bottom of page 20. Someone is very keen to know how the public feel about John Key’s “management of the issue of the mass interception of personal data”.

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Note the questions on the page below;

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It will be interesting to know what the results are. And even more interesting to know who commissioned the questions relating to mass surveillance/data collection?

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Horizon has now released the results of the surveillance survey at http://www.horizonpoll.co.nz.
As its survey report says: The survey was conducted solely for Horizon as part of its independent public interest research programme and commitment to “listen to New Zealand”.